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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 8: personal qualities (search)
nd politics:-- Oak Knoll, Danvers, 3d mo., 26, 1878. My Dear Higginson,--Thanks for thy letter. I have mislaid —'s address. . . . Will thee drop me a postal to tell me? I will send her $50 as a wedding gift, as thee suggest. I am glad she is soon to escape from her desk drudgery. Thine always, J. G. W. If there is a change in the Cabinet I hope Evarts will go. He may be a lawyer — he seems to be nothing else. He has about as much magnetism as one of Dexter's wooden images. Washburn, late minister to France, would do well in the Cabinet, I think. This was in early life, but after the sales of his poems became lucrative his income was large in proportion to his needs,--his personal expenditures increasing but slightly,--and he was, as his friends knew, most generous in giving. In this he was stimulated perhaps by the extraordinary example of his old friend, Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, whose letters he edited, and who used to deny herself many of the common comforts of
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
y, 18, 103. Tyson, Elisha, 49. U. Underwood, Francis H., his Whittier, quoted, 29-32,58-61. United States, 100; Supreme Bench of, 181. United States Senate, 44; Sumner elected to, 45. V. Van Buren, Martin, 68. Vaudois Teacher, the, 166-168. Ventura, Father, 88. Vere, Aubrey de, 36. Vermont, 35. Villager, the, 87. Virginia, 157. W. Waldensian Synod, 166. Ward, Mrs. E. S. P., acquaintance with Whittier, 112. Wardwell, Lydia, 85. Warner, C. D., 178. Washburn, E. A., 97. Washington, D. C., 26, 48, 99, 171. Wasson, David A., his opinion of Whittier, 153, 154. Webster, Daniel, 6, 58, 156. Webster, Ezekiel, 58. Weld, Theodore, D., 115. Wendell, Ann E., 171; Whittier's letter to, 81, 172. Wendell, Professor, Barrett, his Literary History of America, quoted, 96. West Amesbury, Mass., 45. Wheelwright, Rev., John, 84. White Mountains, the, 174, 179. Whitman, Walt, 106. Whitson, Thomas, 53. Whittier, Elizabeth Hussey, 57; her poetic